Advocacy Trumps Philosophy
There’s a mistaken view that nominee John Roberts’ advocacy on behalf of his various clients tells us something useful about how he will acquit himself as a justice on the nation’s highest court.
It ain’t necessarily so and those who would try to read the tea-leaves of his lawyering life (including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee) are ill advised. There is a line between representing the interests of a client and allowing one’s personal philosophy to interfere with that representation. That line is not only a matter of fair representation, it is actionable against attorneys who confuse the one issue with the other.
Thou shalt not stick your personal nose into a client’s legal business.
Put another way, a lawyer’s duty is to the law, else how would the unsavory and unattractive of the world get justice?
Those who have their own agenda, and that includes almost everyone opposed to this current president of ours, were and are powered-up to fight this nomination. Actually, they w…